Dr. Chad Han: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Academic
- Role
- Research Fellow (Cancer Survivorship)
- Organisation
- Flinders University – Caring Futures Institute
- Quoted on
- Elderly care & frailty
- Tracked press citations
- 4 (2 with a linkable article)
- Most recently quoted
- 10 Aug 2026
Who Dr. Chad Han is
Dr Chad Han, PhD, is a Research Fellow within the Cancer Survivorship Program at the Caring Futures Institute, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia. His research investigates models of health services — including nutrition, exercise, mHealth, and patient self-management — on outcomes in people with chronic conditions, with a focus on older cancer survivors. He completed his PhD on cross-continuum, multidisciplinary care in frailty. He is an Advanced Accredited Practising Dietitian with both Dietitians Australia and the Singapore Nutrition and Dietetics Association. He leads the Can-VOICE and I-Can-THRIVE research projects, examining survivorship care needs and telehealth-based exercise-nutrition interventions for frailty in older cancer survivors.
“Ms Lau, a PhD candidate supervised by Professor Michelle Miller and Dr Chad Han at Flinders University”
References for this biography
- 1.Dr Chad Han – Flinders University staff profile — Role title, organisation, research focus, dietitian credentials, and areas of expertise
- 2.Chad Han – ResearchGate profile — PhD focus on frailty, postdoctoral specialism in geriatric oncology, publication record (633 citations, 39 publications)
- 3.Grant support for early career researchers to tackle community challenges – Flinders News — 2025 Early Career Research Seed Funding award for Can-VOICE study
- 4.Over $815,000 fuels 33 new health and medical research projects – Flinders Foundation — Flinders Foundation Health Seed Grant for I-Can-THRIVE project
- 5.The AC2 Project – Flinders University Caring Futures Institute — Co-investigator role on DFAT-funded AC2 cancer survivorship project
Notable achievements
- Awarded a 2025 Flinders University Early Career Research Seed Funding grant (up to $10,000) for the Can-VOICE qualitative study on older cancer survivors and primary care clinicians. Source ↗
- Awarded a Flinders Foundation Health Seed Grant for the I-Can-THRIVE project: co-designing a telehealth-enabled virtual exercise-nutrition intervention for frailty in older cancer survivors. Source ↗
- Co-investigator on the AC2 Project, funded by the National Foundation for Australia-China Relations (DFAT, $300,000), improving cancer survivorship outcomes among Chinese populations. Source ↗
What Dr. Chad Han has said
“Supervisor of Adeline Lau's research on perspectives of older adults with pre-frailty and frailty when engaging with online nutrition educational resources.”
Dr. at Flinders University · Elderly care & frailty · 10 Aug 2026 · People with frailty explain what they really want from digital health tools ↗
Where Dr. Chad Han has been quoted
- People with frailty explain what they really want from digital health toolsnews.flinders.edu.au · 10 Aug 2026
- People with frailty explain what they really want from digital health toolsmedicalxpress.com · 10 Aug 2026
Related media coverage
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Contact & links
- Staff pagehttps://www.flinders.edu.au/people/chad.han
- LinkedInhttps://au.linkedin.com/in/chad-han-dietitian
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